Picard 0.16 released with AcoustID support

We released a new version of Picard today. This new release includes a number of bug fixes. Unicode punctuation is now replaced by default for new users. Title standardization has been removed, as track titles now follow the same style guidelines as recording titles.

One larger change that is hidden by default is support for AcoustID fingerprinting. AcoustID is a new, completely open source, audio fingerprinting project, started by me last year. I’m really glad to finally integrate it with Picard. Integration with the MusicBranz website is planned for later. Configuring Picard to use AcoustID instead of AmpliFIND should be completely transparent, there are no visual differences in the scanning process. Note that this feature requires downloading an extra application, see the AcoustID wiki page for details.

@wismann: There was only a (relatively) short period after the launch of NGS for which people were interpreting the track guidelines as meaning “stay literally to what is printed on the cover”, whereas recordings as “standardize; correct typos; use most common variation of track title”. This caused a number of problems, and was eventually agreed by the Style council to stop this practise and return all of MB’s guidelines to the “standardised” route. You can see the discussions below:

Thanks very much. Thanks to this 0.16, AcoustID is now fully usable with MusicBrainz !
I’ve spotted a small but little annoying regression that might be an easy revert fix (PICARD-66) and something that could be bettered like enabling fetching of all fingerprints at once (PICARD-67), which is little similar to rocketsurgeon666’s requested feature.